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Description

1. 1 print : etching, hand-colored; 31 x 24 cm.

Summary

1. Scenes from a theatrical work, the title of which may be roughly translated as The poacher, Lucifer, and the tenant [?], comprising a large central scene surrounded by six smaller images. In the central scene, the figure of Lucifer, with batlike wings, bursts from an upstairs window, upsetting a ladder and a man in eighteenth-century costume, who tumbles to the earth. The smaller images depict (clockwise from upper left) a dancing couple; a female dancer; a man in Pierrot costume and a naked black man with a club; a giant clutching the Pierrot figure in one hand; two acrobats or wrestlers wearing animal skins; and a musician with an outsize head carrying a trumpet, bellows, and sword.

Subject

1. Etchings
2. Pantomimes > Austria
3. Pierrot (Fictitious character)
4. Dancers > Austria > Vienna > 19th century

Genre/Form

1. Etchings.

Call number

1. *MGZFD Elf A Wil 1

Note

1. Series caption title: Costume Bild zur Theaterzeitung, no. 97.
2. At lower right: Ged. b. [printed by] J. Rauh.

Source (note)

1. Lillian Moore.

Biography (note)

1. Anton Elfinger, an Austrian physician, published his cartoons under the pseudonym Cajetan.

Author

1. Elfinger, Anton, 1821-1864.

Title

1. Scenen und Gruppen aus den Pantomimen der Brüder Lehmann Der Wilddieb und Lucifer und der Pächter [graphic] / Cajetan.

Imprint

1. Wien : Bureau der Theaterzeitung, [183-?]

Biography

1. Anton Elfinger, an Austrian physician, published his cartoons under the pseudonym Cajetan.

Local note

1. Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
2. This item may be offsite for digitization. For additional information please contact dance@nypl.org.

Source

1. Gift; Lillian Moore.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Moore, Lillian. Donor

Research call number

1. *MGZFD Elf A Wil 1